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- ↑ "Review of Cities of Weather". Quill & Quire , May 2005.
- ↑ "Toronto Life moves its 'little red books online". Masthead, December 2007.
- ↑ "St. Joseph Media Brings Home Three Canadian Online Publishing Awards". Digital Producer, October 2009.
- ↑ "Toronto Life website passes 300,000 unique visitors & 2 million page views". October 2009.
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